olympic torch relay. on. a dark day for tatarstan the russian republic mourns the fifty people killed one a plane crashed on landing and like. those on standby the victims or relatives are being treated by psychologists at the start of the identification of the bodies. human rights violations and the forced labor in concert condemned by amnesty international the report highlighting the virtual conditions faced by migrant workers preparing the gulf nation for the twenty twenty two world cup. and german media revealed that british intelligence is using hundreds of luxury hotels across the globe to spy on international diplomats while they've been dissed on calls for action took out massive it's.

this is all see coming to life for most. of our top story now investigators have uncovered the all important flight data recorders from the boeing that crash landed at cazan airport also if two people on board including a son of the republic of tatarstan as president monday has been declared a day of mourning in the region and two foreign nationals were on the plane a u.k. citizen and a ukrainian prescreen officer in cars on. what we're hearing now and this is speculation at the moment is that the bodies of the victims of the plane crash were burned too badly and perhaps d.n.a. tests will be needed in order to identify them and if that's the case then it's

going to take much longer obviously don't just one day the relatives of the victims i have been gathering inside this. behind me. have been pretty much keeping journalists away from speaking to the relative who they did tell us that right now they are being treated by psychologists several ambulances here on standby as well just in case this story has definitely touched country fifty people people on board of this plane. to foreigners were on that plane as well social networks have been witnessing in and out of grief from the relatives of the victims one of them is a state t.v. sports commentator his wife and stepdaughter died in this plane crash and this man . how live after this also president putin says condolences to the victims' families

a phone conversation with the head of the republic of the. son was on board the plane and he just got married recently and his pregnant wife. after he talked her out of taking it the accident itself happened on sunday evening this was a flight from moscow to what we know so far is that at some point. around the point when the airplane was supposed to reach the ground it exploded right now there are several versions. could have been the cause of one of these versions is that it could have been human error the other one is some technical difficulties with the airplane and there are reports that the crew prior to the landing at. did allegedly report that there were some technical difficulties also there's an issue of problems with the fuel the plane was fueled by the airport in moscow we know that samples of the fuel have been taken and they're going to be analyzed but

should black boxes are decoded obviously that's going to provide much more information so the plane itself was over twenty years old and tatarstan airlines had planned to take it out of service again however the company claims there were no known technical problems with the aircraft before it took off on sunday but early in the day the same plane had flown from cows to mosco and passengers reported huge vibrations during landing. the flight itself when quite smoothly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating usually usually i thought it was the weather but when we go told of the plane need turned of the weather was nice the plane was shaking it was dry from side to side lynton our first did was really bad landing and it felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway. and there's been a wide range of factors causing. worldwide over the years according to statistics

from plane crash in four dot com more than a call for caused by human errors including flight crews and technical support on the ground technical problems with crops are responsible for just under a quarter of problems leading to accidents and of course bad weather conditions can play a role there and last but not least terrorist attacks or hijackings make up nine percent of crashes. and earlier we asked civil aviation consultant mark advise her use to fly this same type of plane that question about in seven three seven or his things could have led to this catastrophe. that was a poor repair that led to fatigue and obviously catastrophic failure but all of these factors are going to be looked at normally later emergency you want to get the aircraft on the ground safely as quickly as possible so what would have caused

the aircraft to not live on its first attempt was weather a factor was crew fatigue who own this there are going to be so many things that have to be looked at keeping in mind that accidents generally don't have been from a single event it's shain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. where we go now my go and walk is encountered feel that being treated like cattle according to a damning report from amnesty international the rights group has released the results of its probe into the gulf monarchies construction industry the report found new respond nations and the country which is steaming ahead with preparations for the twenty twenty two world cup amnesty says migrant workers are being deprived of pay and placed in over crowded unsanitary housing their rights group also expressed its dismay that one of the richest countries in the world is allowing this to happen

a spokesman for the organization told us see that some of the walkers are being treated like slaves that. what we found was that there are systemic problems we'd be. my guest workers encounter and many of them are subjected to david expectation for example which i think people who were deceived about the date it was getting caught or some people have been deceived about the kind of work they would do in court there we found many workers who had not been paid. for a long time. some of them had not been paid for months at a time and we found the workers who had been stuck in the country trying to leave their desperate in some cases the suicide of trying to be you've been able to because they would not get to make that i mean teach is required under culture in law in some circumstances. with people who are in conditions that are most paper.

under german filmmaker at pisa gaze a one two consulates who investigate the situation but after interviewing migrants here and his cameraman were detained and their behind but was they were teased and filming was without permission and attempting to spark a riot mr gay so told us he was one cabinet that. four of them they haven't got paid for seven months in a row right now trying to file their cases well all of those workers have one major problem they have to work within the so-called system let me try and explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm is working for the cup ration. and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors of the state take the past post away from the migrant workers

and that puts zero numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. germany's magazine claims that the british intelligence service g c h q operates a surveillance network of hundreds of undisclosed luxury hotels around the globe to spy on diplomats and government delegations the program infiltrates the hotel's booking systems so the agency can prepare the rooms for. valence meaning back phones and computers this game is also reportedly used to get the premises ready for the deployment of on find agents for close monitoring the article puts britain in position a time when germany so pairing to hold a special parliamentary session on the issue of spying as peter on the reports. the reason that they've called this special session is to talk about allegations of spying on the german people by the n.s.a. and the topping of calls private telephone german opposition parties hard

long been calling for a full investigation into these allegations that have come out following leaks by edward snowden that germany was targeted extensively by united states operations i've seen a parliamentarian here in germany that actually called on the government themselves to be very candid with this of course comes after allegations that the german security services may have actually been complicit in spying on the german people so this whole session is there to try and to find out who knew what about what exactly and as it goes on throughout the day i'll be bringing you all of the information that comes out of the book meeting here on r.t. . bitcoin is about avoiding government supervision but someone doing all they can to trash that look at what to do as a government is trying to take the wind out of the digital cameras says sales and

just a few minutes. before and president has said his country will be taking a tough stance against iran the next round of international nuclear talks on wednesday france or orlando or speaking in israel which has joined france in calling for sanctions store made in place against iran and according to a british newspaper tel aviv is preparing for military action if his demands are not met his policy and now will. the sunday times is reporting of cooperation between israel and saudi arabia over a possible military strike on iran now according to the reports riyadh will provide tel aviv with so-called tactical support which essentially means allowing israeli warplanes to use its space and at the same time allowing the israelis to use saudi briskly helicopters tanker planes and drones now the two countries have been united over there why worry about iran's nuclear program for quite some time particularly

now as the way seems on the brink of reaching some kind of deal with iran both countries have expressed dismay their concern is that there will be an easing of international sanctions while at the same time iran will continue with its nuclear enrichment program at the moment it doesn't seem highly likely that there will be agreement on the rant particularly this week and this is largely because of the criticism by france at the moment the french president francois hollande is here in israel netanyahu has made it clear that he expects wants to keep up its criticism and its objection to this deal france has already done this in fact last week when the earlier round of geneva talks happened it was fronts that largely prevented a deal from going through at that stage and what we've heard from francois hollande just yesterday sunday is that france will only give its not to some kind of agreement with iran if for conditions on mit's in these conditions he laid out as being number one that all ukrainian nuclear installations are put under

international supervision immediately number two that enrichment is suspended to the twenty percent mark number three that all existing stocks are reduced and lastly that there was a halt of construction at the iraq plant so netanyahu and hollande sitting on the same side of the fence when it comes to concern over any kind of deal that could potentially be reached at this week between the world powers and to run. now a mine he used to represent iran the negotiations with the u.n. nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. believes the french stance on this issue is deeply contradictory. france has a block. because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i. five thousand. inspection. program and frequently has

announced the reason no evidence of day version toward the end is asian this is clear but i really doubt the real concern of france is a nuclear bomb because france has a strategic relations with israel is not a member of n.p.t. possess about four hundred nuclear bombs therefore france should not be concerned about nuclear bomb france help israel to master nuclear bomb france heard in the zero two master nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record and while the obama administration's influence over the iranian go stations and the middle east as a whole seems to be slipping some are saying america's closest allies in the region are to blame that's being discussed by peaceful other than his gas crosstalk next hour here on alt. if the u.s. is trying to start talks with the iranian government and yet it's getting clobbered

in the middle east by the saudis who don't want to do it by the israelis or don't want to do a very good good friends nobody can. refute. a car which itself the doesn't want to do it here he's trying to do a good thing for the world for bring peace of media nature to the middle east and he's getting do you know killed from all sides i mean you can't win in these situations but you've got to believe in what you want to do when you want to bring some sort of settlement he might believe that negotiations are the most important thing as opposed to saying actions but he's letting all these competing voices drown out his his mission. stay with us in the international news shortly.

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to. come out again this is. how the a renegade cryptocurrency that sees to have void the watchful eye of four announced his has made history yet again these coins value so much the past five hundred dollars this weekend and months of study out a months of steady growth but as the currencies scoring more and more points it keeps raising eyebrows in washington as off his game natural chicken reports. there's around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big coin is still a very small phenomenon but it's growing and very rapidly the value of a bit coin has increased ten fold since early two thousand and thirteen bitcoin

bypasses government currency this is not subject to any regulations and at the moment the government is looking at it with suspicion citing concerns that the virtual currency is being useful facilitating illegal activity like drug trade. we've seen things like bitcoin and others these internet based currencies that are not subject to regulation or oversight and we're working very hard to look at how we can counteract that. but bitcoin supporters are pointing to the fact that this new peer to peer payments system is being used in a widening variety of transactions corners for example are now actively chipping in to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines the u.s. government and the u.s. federal reserve obviously can still not either rapid development of bitcoin and are right now thinking how to maybe incorporate bitcoin into the conventional money system possibly wishing to see bitcoin as more of

a technological innovation rather than a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check out. so what's the heart of the digital currency is success these koreans are stored an anonymous online while its users can carry out transactions between them bypassing bonks middleman and what's more important governments also and executive editor of fabrics jeffrey tucker says officials have no chance of bringing bitcoin under they have full control. governments always like to control money they like to control the currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about becoming a year ago to the laughing stock and now people are starting to worry sense they they don't want anything that happens out of their control and that kind really just doesn't care actually it's a perfect currency and it is it is immune from an abuse by governments and

regulators no one controls that crime it's purely a product of who can lobel international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a revolutionary tool to free people from oppression from their nation states governments can try to control it better elsewhere they cannot. a quick look now at some of what our web seem hard lined up for you this hour russia's answer to the prying eyes of drones and spy planes find out how big cutting edge system that you can see on your screen right now will be keeping secrets sake. and also this is what happens to a syrian army base outside damascus during a blistering of time by rebel forces had to be dot com to find out why that all so crucial for the enemies of president assad.

right. first. and i think you're. going to. be. the future of the greenpeace activists arrested in the russian all in september while trying to board an oil rig once again hangs in the balance hearings are underway in saying it is beyond prosecutors want to extend custody for the detainees while the defense team is hoping to secure their release under a travel ban maria finish their reports now from outside one of the truly courthouses where these sessions are being held. the geology of kalinski could change st petersburg so i hope you can see behind me is

a vote to decide today whether to keep the so-called off tick songwriter's detainees in jail for three more months old to release them and that's off to russia's investigative committee to apply for the extension saying they need more time to complete the probe by monday morning as far as we know at least six applications happen filed but we expect more to come later to die this particular court is in charge of examining the cases of the ship's doctor from russia from canada and russia as journalist this week marks ten months since thirteen men and women from nineteen different countries greenpeace activists cheering waste and the ship's crew were detained and just to remind you here's a little bit of the stories bag wrong in september the greenpeace chief approached clear as long. all offshore oil drilling platform in russia is not and pretrial receipt it's owned by russia's energy giant gas crunch and then a group of activists attempted to hold themselves on the platform for

a protest over the danger is that the drilling could potentially pose to the environment they say but they were arrested by russia's coast guard initially charged with piracy the men and women who are facing up to fifteen years in prison but then last month the chargers were changed to hold a guinness and lawyers are still saying that technically paris the charges have not been yet lifted while initially the group of people or was held in russia's northern port of more months but a week ago there were transferred here to st petersburg on a train in a special carriage and this is where they are now kept in three different detention centers all over st peter's work well believe the investigators applications are not held by the judge today all thirty people will be released as soon as next week so today is a very important die and it could mark the end of the story but just as well start

a new chapter. and news just in that one of the detainees will remain in custody for another three months the court in st because about has extended his attention for three more months and of course we'll keep you posted on this developing story of course now some more international news in brief this hour in egypt at least twenty four people have been killed and many more injured in a collision between a freight train and a minibus crash at a level crossing to the south of cairo also involved several other vehicles most of the casualties were reportedly members of a family returning from a wedding arrived quickly to take the injured to hospital there are fears the death toll could rise. a series of deadly attacks across the iraqi capital baghdad have left at least twenty people dead multiple bombings occurred in commercial areas and city market starting in soldiers on patrol as well as civilians iraq is

experiencing its worst violence in years with the rate of killing that hadn't been seen since two thousand and eight the u.n. says nearly a thousand people lost their lives in shootings and bombings last month a lot. really is a big crippled fukushima nuclear power plant have started removing radioactive fuel rods from one of four reactors the procedure is considered highly dangerous but is a crucial first test of plant operator tepco his ability to move forward with securing the whole facility which could take decades each reactor has a radiation but ten times higher than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima local authorities say they will immediately notify all residents living nearby if everything goes well. in chile left wing candidate so michelle about chile as one of the first round of voting in the country's presidential race seeking her second term as leader and fell short of the

twenty of the fifty one percent needed to secure an outright victory one of the shlaes main campaign pledges is to a rerun of the constitution which states bond to the dictatorship of a goose so pinochet chile is one of the richest nations in latin america but millions have staged protests and listened he is demanding more wealth equality anti-educational stuff it's. up next a special report on gun crime in new orleans but if you're watching in the u.k. it's time to go underground with action rattansi. there is now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century

created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness but a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a tiny tiny drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of

many americans but that's just my opinion. right to see. her story. and i think you're. on our reporters. in. the in the. oh my god. ok you don't have to give me a second to think about this before. ya know a couple one. theory.

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